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New comment by Eggpants in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

Eggpants — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:14:07 +0000

“annualized revenue run rate” is a bogus accounting term. It’s like taking a paycheck and multiplying it by 365. Notice the complete lack of any mention of profits.

New comment by Eggpants in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

Eggpants — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:00:01 +0000

I asked it to write a python program to find the intersection of a line and a circle and it one shot it. Asking for a Swift version worked as well. Rust version goofed with lines of comments and code intertwined.

I asked what highway connects two given cities that it got wrong but would have been correct if I asked for two other cities.

I asked it to save answers to a file or notes but no burrito

Asked for an ascii drawing of a race car. Not sure what that thing was it returned.

New comment by Eggpants in "Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes"

Eggpants — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:32:58 +0000

I’m old enough to remember when one checked the assembly a compiler generated because early on they produced terrible assembly. Eventually they got good enough to not needing to check.

Coding agents are not close to that yet, but it’s interesting watching history repeat itself.

This narrative of the coding agents being so much better now over the last few months seems VERY exaggerated. I’m still spending a lot of time telling Claude: No, that didn’t fix the problem. Again. Can you handle this task or do I have to give it to codex?

New comment by Eggpants in "Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes"

Eggpants — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:21:11 +0000

What I found interesting is nanoclaw isn’t a working product out of the box. You must use a coding agent to complete it with features you want. For example add iMessage support, etc.

In other words, Claude is the compiler.

New comment by Eggpants in "Don't trust AI agents"

Eggpants — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:36:05 +0000

I’m using this but using gpt-oss-120B instead of a cloud service. It has been eye opening when I realized the LLM is beings used as a compiler. I asked it to add apple iMessage and apple notes support as I I rather have long responses, like write me a program ideas, not fill my iMessage history. The local LLM, which I believe has limited bash training data, does pretty well.

For example: I enjoy industrial music and asked it for the tour data of the band KMFDM which returned they will be in Las Vegas in April for a festival(Sick new world). This festival has something like 20 bands most of which I never heard of. I asked nanoclaw to search all of the band list and generate a listing grouped by the type of music they play: Industrial, rap, etc. It did a good job based on bands I do know.

I was pleased as I certainly did not want to do 20 band web searches by hand. It’s still at a bar trick level. It gives me hope that an upgraded agent based Siri-like OS component could actually be useful from time to time.

New comment by Eggpants in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

Eggpants — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:02:06 +0000

What’s interesting is Anthropic being singled out here. That either means:

1- OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc have no problem with their products being used to kill people so no need to bully them.

2- These other products are so terrible at the task that the clown shoe wearing SecDef is forced to try to bully Anthropic.

New comment by Eggpants in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

Eggpants — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:03:59 +0000

I read his book “A new kind of science” and quickly figured out why it was self-published. My goodness it’s bad and need of an editor.

A big disappointment as I’m a fan of his technical work.

New comment by Eggpants in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

Eggpants — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:21:38 +0000

Last night, I was able to modify nanoclaw, which runs in a container, to use iMessage(instead of whatsapp ) and use GPT-OSS-120B(instead of Claude) hosted on a Nvidia spark running llama.cpp.

It works but a bit slow when asking for web based info. Took a couple of minutes to return a stock price closing value. Trying it again this morning returned an answer in a couple of seconds so perhaps that was just a network blip.

It did get confused when scheduling times as the UTC date time was past midnight but my local EST time was before midnight. This caused my test case case of “tomorrow morning at 7am send me the current Olympic county medal count” test to be scheduled a day later. I told it to assume EST timezone and it appeared to work when translating times but not dates.

New comment by Eggpants in "Why "just prompt better" doesn't work"

Eggpants — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:29:44 +0000

After Claude failing to fix a bug after 4 attempts, I wrote this prompt and sure enough the bug was fixed. lol.

> no it still doesn't work. Do I have to let OpenAI fix this or can you handle it?

I can definitely handle this. Let me try a completely different approach - …

New comment by Eggpants in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

Eggpants — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:46:23 +0000

Back when I worked at AWS, I wrote a one page “press release” about this concept where the value add was the weight/power reduction of customer sats that could offload on board processing to the “Cloud above the Clouds”. There is a bottleneck with the down/uplink ground stations to do the on the ground processing.

The biggest problem folks had was even with equipment with 99.9% reliability something breaks every day due the huge raw number of devices involved. And most network equipment is not any where close to being radiation hardened.

I had some fun with it with Bezo’s fist bumping folks because SpaceX was cleaning BlueOrigin clock.

I talked to one of their lawyers and didn’t hear anything afterwards. I left AWS and a couple of years later Amazon announced AWS ground station. I wonder how much my paper contributed to green lighting that project.

New comment by Eggpants in "JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator"

Eggpants — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:37:19 +0000

Definitely helped that I just missed the punch card era. I know young me would have dropped my stack of cards many times…

New comment by Eggpants in "JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator"

Eggpants — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:27:01 +0000

Young me remembers fondly poking and peeking system memory locations to see what happens. The manual, if I remember right, had a table of memory locations to system settings. Things like font and background colors.

I made a “punch out like” boxing game in basic where the background color blocks was the opponent and the font lines was your character via poking memory locations.

It was slow but I was just a kid at the time. It definitely told me what I wanted to do for a living at an early age.

New comment by Eggpants in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

Eggpants — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:30:04 +0000

And yet Tesla won’t take responsibility for FSD mistakes. I had one and it’s amazing when it works but it did try to kill me a number of times.

New comment by Eggpants in "AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage"

Eggpants — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:31:57 +0000

OpenAI and Microsoft have defined AGI as a revenue number so yeah maybe using that definition.

I believe AGI will require the ability to self tune its own Neutral network coefficients which the current tech cannot do because I can’t deduce it’s own errors. Oh sorry “hallucinations”. Developing brains learn from both pain and verbal feedback (no, not food!) etc.

It’s an interesting problem where just telling a LLM model it’s wrong is not enough to adjust Billions of parameters with.

New comment by Eggpants in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

Eggpants — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:49:08 +0000

I’ve been doing the same with GPT-OSS-120B and have been impressed.

Only gotcha is Claude code expects a 200k context window while that model max supports 130k or so. I have to do a /compress when it gets close. I’ll have to see if there is a way to set the max context window in CC.

Been pretty happy with the results so far as long as I keep the tasks small and self contained.

New comment by Eggpants in "Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades"

Eggpants — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:33:55 +0000

The M-series unified memory is built into the chip itself, not separate components. Of course Apple is going to maintain their margins, but it’s easy to see why with this design more memory is more expensive than drams. Well maybe not with the current market pricing which hopefully is temporary.

New comment by Eggpants in "Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness""

Eggpants — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:49:49 +0000

At least perform a tiny bit of research before you parrot VC talking points on a VC controlled message board. Yes data centers use a shit ton of water daily https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-co...

New comment by Eggpants in "How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?"

Eggpants — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:49:59 +0000

Because it was really about serving red meat to the MAGA base. My relatives in Kentucky cheered because they believed the “all those lazy blacks are getting fired” narrative. It’s so strange to me as they are deeply religious and some of the kindest folks I know, but also the most racist.

New comment by Eggpants in "Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together"

Eggpants — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:22:04 +0000

I agree that’s Zed is very nice but a ticking enshitiation time bomb. However, you do see how this autocomplete “feature” and its whole copilot everywhere strategy, is about M$’s roi of its ai investment right?

So if you have a problem with VC money you should stop using VSCode as well.

Of course they will just invent more accounting terms, like they do with azure, to hide how much money they are losing on it.

https://windowsreport.com/steve-ballmer-calls-bullshit-micro...

New comment by Eggpants in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"

Eggpants — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:21:17 +0000

And yet, it requires kernel extension anti-cheat to stop a game mod from reading and writing memory locations in a running process. It’s a toy operating system if it can’t even prevent that. It’s why corporate machines are so locked down. Then there is the fact video drivers run in ring 0 and are allowed to phone home… but hey you can prevent notepad++ from running FTW.